Different recognition cues reveal the decision rules used for egg rejection by hosts of a variably mimetic avian brood parasite

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• 作者：M. Alicia de la Colina (1) madelacolina@ege.fcen.uba.ar
  Lorena Pompilio (1)
  Mark E. Hauber (2)
  Juan C. Reboreda (1)
  Bettina Mahler (1)
• 关键词：Chalk ; browed Mockingbird – ; Shiny Cowbird – ; Egg rejection – ; Antiparasite defenses – ; Eggshell spotting
• 刊名：Animal Cognition
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：September 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：15
• 期：5
• 页码：881-889
• 全文大小：269.5 KB
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• 作者单位：1. Departamento de Ecolog铆a, Gen茅tica y Evoluci贸n, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabell贸n II Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA Buenos Aires, Argentina2. Department of Psychology, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10065, USA
• ISSN：1435-9456

文摘

Brood parasitism imposes several fitness costs on the host species. To reduce these costs, hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved various defenses, of which egg rejection is the most prevalent. In the face of variable host-parasite mimicry and the costs of egg discrimination itself, many hosts reject only some foreign eggs. Here, we experimentally varied the recognition cues to study the underlying cognitive mechanisms used by the Chalk-browed Mockingbird (Mimus saturninus) to reject the white immaculate eggs laid by the parasitic Shiny Cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis). Immaculate eggs are the only parasite eggs rejected by this host, as it accepts all polymorphic, spotted eggs laid by cowbirds. Using a within-breeding pair experimental design, we tested for the salience of spotting, UV reflectance, and brightness in eliciting rejection. We found that the presence of spotting significantly decreased the probability of rejection while increments in brightness significantly increased rejection frequencies. The cognitive rules underlying mockingbird rejection behavior can be explained by a decision-making model which predicts changes in the levels of rejection in direct relation to the number of relevant attributes shared between host and parasite eggs.